HERE IS A LIST OF MINIMAL PAIRS AND OTHER SIMILAR - LOOKING WORDS. PRONOUNCE THEM CORRECTLY WITH THE HELP OF YOUR TEACHER. MAKE SENTENCES OF YOUR OWN TO DISTINGUISH THEM. MEANINGS OF SOME DIFFICULT WORDS ARE GIVEN WITHIN BRACKETS.
| Accept - receive | Expect - not including |
| Access - approach | Excess - too much |
| Adapt - to make fit | Adopt - to accept |
| Acceed - to yield | Exceed - to go beyond |
| Accessary - on who helps | Accessory - Additional |
| Adverse - unfavourable | Averse - disinclined to |
| Advise - verb | Advice - noun |
| Affection - love | Affectation - artificial manners |
| Affect - influence | Effect - accomplish |
| Allusion - indirect reference | illusion - unreal image |
| Allude - refer to | elude - escape |
| Amend - alter in order ot improve | emend - remove the errors |
| Amiable - good natured | Unanimous - of one mind |
| Apposite - suitable | Opposite - contrary to |
| Apprise - inform | Appraise - evaluate |
| Ardent - eager | Arduous - difficult |
| Artist - painter, sculotor etc. | Artiste - one who performs an art singer, dancer etc. |
| Artistic - beautiful | Artful - cunning |
| Biannual - half-yearly | Biennial - once in two years |
| Casual - due to chance | Causal - of a cause |
| Cemetery - a burial place | Symmetry - hormony |
| Charted - mapped | Chartered - hired by contact |
| Collision - violent hitting | Collusion - secret agreement for a wrong purpose |
| Clemch - tight grip | Clinch - settle a deal |
| Climatic - of a climate | Climactic - of a climax |
| Coach - a four-wheeled carriage | Couch - bed |
| Collaborate - work in partnership | Corroborate - confirm something |
| Coma - unnatural deep sleep | Comma - (,) |
| Contagious - spreading by contact | Contiguous - adjoining |
| Corporal - of the body | Corporeal - as opposed to the spirit |
| Corps - military force | corpse - dead body |
| Council - a consulting body | Counsel - advice |
| Confirm - establish firmly | Conform - comply with |
| Crumble - break to pieces | Crumple - crush into wrinkles |
| Dairy - milk and other milk and other milk products | Diary - notebook of record |
| Decease - death | Disease - illness |
| Diseased - sickly | Deceased - dead |
| Defer - postpone | Differ - be distinct from |
| Deference - respect | Difference - dissimilarity |
| Descent - climbing downwards | Decent - courteous |
| Defy - challenge | Deify - make a god of worship |
| Despricate - disapprove | Depreciate - Become less in value |
| Disburse - pay out money | Disperse - drive away |
| Draught/Draft - rough outline of any writing | Drought/Draut - want of rain |
| Elicit - draw out | Illicit - illegal |
| Emigrant - a person who leaves his country | Immigrant - a person who comes into a country |
| Eminent - famous | Imminent - likely to happen soon |
| Enervate - to weaken | Innervate - to stimulate |
| Ennumerable - that can be counted | Innumerable - that cannot be counted |
| Exorcise - drive away an evil spirit | Exercise - practice |
| Exhausted - tired | Exhaustive - thorough |
| Facility - skill | Felicity - great happiness |
| Facilitate - make easy | Felicitate - congratulate |
| Goal - jail | Goal - aim |
| Ghostly - of a ghoat | Ghastly - horrible |
| Heaven - a place of god | Haven - a place of safety |
| Humiliation - beign put to shame | Humility - modesty |
| Hypercritical - over crittical | Hypocrittical - relating to hypocrisy, flase |
| Idle - not active | Ideal - perfect, the highest of its kind |
| Imaginary - unreal | Imaginative - full of imagination |
| Immoral - wicked | Amoral - not related ot morals |
| Industrial - of an industry dealing with manufacture | Industrious - hard working |
| Ingenious - skilful, clever | Ingenuous - frank, simple |
| Licence - noun | License - verb |
| Moment - time | Movement - act of moving |
| Moan - make a low sound of pain | Mourn - regret the death of |
| Ordinance - law or order | Ordance - the department dealing with military supplies |
| Occident - the west | Accident - a mishap |
| Petrol - a fuel | Patrol - keep watch my moving around |
| Prosecute - take legal action on | Persecute - punish un justly |
| Potable - fit to drink | Portable - able to carry about |
| Precede - go before | Proceed - continue to advance |
| Precedent - a previous case take as an example | President - the head or chairman |
| Quiet - calm | Quite - completely |
| Refuge - sheltter from danger | Refuse - waste material |
| Septic - infected and full of pus | Sceptic - one who doubts in |
| Spacious - roomy | Specious - showy but deceptive |
| Sever - cut | Severe - serious |
| Solitude - loneliness | Solicitude - anxiety |
| Succession - the coming of one thing after another | Secession - withdrawing, splitting away |
| Temporal - worldly | Temporary - not permanent |
| Thrash - beat with a whip | Thresh - beat the grain out |
| Tycoon - a wealthy, powerful industrialist | Typhoon - aviolent hurricane |
| Urban - of a city | Urbane - refined, polished |
| Venal - dishonest | Venial - small, pardonable |
| Vocation - a person’s regular occupation | Avocation - a secondary occupation pursued for pleasure |
| Wreath - a garland of flowers | Wreathe - cover or encircle |
| Wreck - ruin | Wreak - give expression to, avenge |
Non-defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already.
The adjective clause which does not define the noun before it but gives additional information about the noun is called the non-defining relative clause.